Eros and Asceticism
In it’s most essential formulation, Eros is the desire for the other. Not the desire to remain as we are in company with another, not the desire for the desires of the other — that which identifies it’s own object with that of another’s — but the desire whose object is the other itself. The [...]
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Lewis and the Modern Sexual Appetite.
“You can get a large audience together for a strip-tease act–that is, to watch a girl undress on the stage. Now suppose you came to a country where you could fill a theatre by simply bringing a covered plate on to the stage and then slowly lifting the cover so as to let everyone see, [...]
